But most of all, he chiefly reckons by

A private chance,—the death of his curst[494] wife;

This is to him the dearest memory,

And th' happiest accident of all his life.20

FOOTNOTES:

[481] Not in MS.

[482] So Isham copy.—Omitted in ed. A.

[483] So Isham copy.—Eds. A, B, C "old."

[484] Boulogne was captured by Henry VIII. in 1544.

[485] The reference probably is to the visitation of 1551.